News

April 2024

15th of April 2024: Rotation student Katelyn VanderSleen is joining our lab to complete her PhD thesis!

3rd of April 2024: Ameya Patel joined our lab! He is a first year undergraduate student and a member of the Honors College at Rutgers.

March 2024

29th of March 2024: We had our monthly lab lunch, during which we celebrated Elena’s acceptance to medical school at Rutgers! We enjoyed Middle Eastern food from a local restaurant, and our undergraduate student, Neha, also treated us to her homemade brownies!

22nd of March 2024: Our rotation student from the Molecular Biosciences PhD program, Katelyn VanderSleen, presented a poster on her rotation project during the annual Molecular Biosciences Graduate Student Symposium at Rutgers! Eleanna was a judge for posters during that symposium and was impressed by the amazing quality and breadth of the research undertaken by graduate students across Rutgers.

18th of March 2024: Philip Socha joined our lab! He is a first year undergraduate student in Cell Biology & Neuroscience, and a member of the SAS Honors program.

February 2024

23rd of February 2024: Congratulations to our awesome technician, Elena Eubanks, who got accepted to her top choice MD program at Rutgers RWJMS! She will be continuing her important research in our lab on a part time basis during her medical studies.

11th of February 2024: We had our monthly lab lunch to celebrate everybody’s accomplishments over the past 4 months!

January 2024

16th of January 2024: Sanjana Archakam joined our lab as a coop undergraduate student from Northeastern University in Boston!

December 2023

19th of December 2023: The lab had its first Christmas party! Happy Holidays!

6th -8th December 2023: Eleanna attended the HFSP meeting for current awardees and alumni in Cape Town, South Africa. It was great attending numerous talks and visiting posters presenting cutting edge science. Eleanna presented a poster on our current and previous work on a-synuclein. We are excited to return from this meeting with several new collaborations!

4th of December 2023: Katelyn VanderSleen joined our lab for her second rotation! She is a graduate student in the Molecular Biosciences PhD program at Rutgers.

November 2023

11th-15th November 2023: Eleanna attended the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting in Washington DC. It was great learning about the exciting new research across the entire breadth of neuroscience and catching up with old colleagues and friends.

7th of November 2023: Robert Kimelman joined our lab as a research intern!

1st-5th of November 2023: Eleanna attended the EMBO Lab Leadership course, as well as the EMBO fellows and alumni meeting in Newport beach, California. She gave her first talk as a PI, where she presented the very first data generated by our lab at Rutgers. She also participated in the career development/mentorship panel where former EMBO fellows were invited to give advice to current fellows on academic careers. In addition, she chaired a session and was a member of the poster and short talk evaluation committee.

October 2023

  • 5th of October 2023: Elena Eubanks joined our lab as a postbac research technician!

  • 4th of October 2023: Neha Patel joined our lab as its first undergraduate student! Neha is in her second year in the Cell Biology & Neuroscience program at Rutgers University.

September 2023

  • 28th of September 2023: The lab is fully set up and we did our first tissue culture experiment!

  • 7-8th of September 2023: We have received the first deliveries of large pieces of equipment!

  • 1st of September 2023: The lab officially opened its doors on the 1st of September! Below are pictures of our gorgeous space in the building of the School of Public Health at the Piscataway campus of Rutgers university.